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Are grocery shops truly working out of food? here is what you want to grasp
We Have all observed the headlines.
But just how a lot will have to we be being concerned concerning the long-time period safety of our food provide?
turns out there are three massive factors making it tougher than usual to get a few meals merchandise on shelves around the country: iciness climate, the Omicron variation of the coronavirus and the trucker vaccine mandate.
Industry experts say that Canada’s meals supply is nowhere close to collapse — despite dramatic photos of empty shelves you may also see on social media. So relax simple, you may now not at all times in finding what you are looking for at the supermarket presently, however this, too, shall pass. Read more
WATCH | Mavens say a lot of components behind reduced supply:
Trucker vaccine mandate blamed for empty cabinets as convoy heads to Ottawa
As a convoy of protesters heads toward Ottawa, the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truck drivers has been blamed for empty grocery store cabinets. But experts say there are a large number of components, including extreme weather, contributing to diminished supply. 1:59
She rented a truck on a perfectly sunny day. Why was once she billed for greater than $5,500 in hail injury?
Hail, no.
Keli Chick needs answers after a one-day rental from Endeavor Rent-A-Automotive devolved into a 12 months-long saga over a damage declare worth more than $FIVE,500.
She says she drove her rental truck from Dawson Creek, B.C., to Pink Deer, Alta., on a sunny day at the end of 2020, but six weeks later, was once at the receiving end of a letter from Enterprise mentioning she was at the hook for $FIVE,578 for hail damage.
“i assumed, ‘This can’t be possible,'” she said
Chick later despatched Undertaking a hyperlink to a neighborhood TV weather record that mentioned there were transparent skies throughout her apartment length, which used to be later showed by means of a meteorologist at Atmosphere and Climate Amendment Canada contacted through Go Public.
But It didn’t make a distinction. It was most effective after Pass Public requested an interview with Endeavor that the company dropped its claim in opposition to Chick. Read extra
Keli Chick spent virtually a yr preventing allegations that she was once responsible for hail damage to a truck she rented from Enterprise, regardless of having pushed thru clear climate. (Colin Corridor/CBC)
Apartment homeowners worry losing their houses after being hit with $14M in repair prices
it isn’t always real that proudly owning your personal house protects you from the threat of shedding it, that is something Wendy Thomas, who has owned a condo within the comparable Toronto building for the ultimate 42 years, is learning the exhausting approach.
Thomas and loads of others in her development had been lately given 15 days to pay between $30,000 and $FORTY TWO,000 in unique evaluation charges after the rental’s board made up our minds the development used to be in desperate want of maintenance.
If citizens were not in a position to pay, a lien used to be slapped on their unit, which beneath Ontario’s Condominiums Act permits the apartment agency to promote the unit to get better the quantity owing. It additionally method those citizens can’t vote in future board elections.
“How could they do it? We’re in the middle of a virus,” Thomas mentioned through tears. “for most people, this is their retirement home. They have been on the lookout for a peaceful time.”
Many condominium house owners in the development are seniors on fixed incomes who now worry that in the event that they cannot pay their proportion of the costs, they will possibility dropping their properties.
Thomas stated she’s had to return out of retirement and return to her customer service activity to have enough money the payments. Unable to safe a loan from her bank, she mentioned she had no choice however to take out a top-pastime loan from an individual lender. Learn more
Wendy Thomas has owned her unit at 4645 Jane St. in Toronto for 42 years and says she has no goal of giving it up. (Samantha Beattie/CBC)
What else is going on?
Feeling nervous and lonely as the pandemic drags on? you are not on my own
Just About one in 4 respondents to CAMH survey mentioned they needed — but could not get entry to — psychological well being improve final 12 months.
Crossing the border can take perpetually. But Canada says it is planning new technological fixes to modify that
Facial reputation, boost customs declarations, electronic gates are some of the deliberate changes.
This Carrément raincoat has been recalled for being an entanglement hazard
Right Away do away with the drawstrings from either side of the raincoat waistband, reducing and eliminating all cords, to do away with the hazard.
Smoothie product sold online recalled for attainable cyanide poisoning
Evive Nutrition Inc. smoothie accommodates raw elderberries that may unencumber cyanide when eaten.
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